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Marriage Certificates and Probate Records : 1756-1827.

Call Number:
HIL-MICL FC LFR .H8W5M3
Category:
Family
Creator:
Hubbard, William, 1751-1813.
Material Description:
1 microfilm textual records 35 mm
Background:

William Hubbard, a Loyalist from Stamford, Connecticut, was the first registrar of deeds and wills for Sunbury County. He was elected to the first House of Assembly after New Brunswick had been created a separate jurisdiction from Nova Scotia in 1784, and served for many years as chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas. He was a lawyer by profession and farmed a large land holding at Burton, New Brunswick.

Contents:

The collection contains marriage certificates, 1756-1826, and probate records, 1786-1827, for Sunbury County. 

The probate records include an account book for Surrogate Fees, 1786-1808, Return of Fees for 1807, and Reports of Fees for 1816-1822 and 1814-1817. The material is subdivided chronologically.

Originals:

The original records are held by the New Brunswick Museum Archives.

Archival Ref. No.:

NBM Shelf 28, Box 1 and Box 2

Finding Aids:

A nominal index precedes both the marriage certificates and the probate records. 

The nominal indexes are available in print.

Notes:

The Return of Fees and the Reports of Fees at the end of the probate records are difficult to read. 

Two additional series of Hubbard Papers are available in the Loyalist Collection and are shelved at MIC-Loyalist FC LFR .H8F3P3 and MIC-Loyalist LFR .N8W5P3. The quality of the microfilm reproduction is poor. The text is indistinct.